How Exceptional Is the West? An Investigation of Worldwide Trends in Societal-Average Levels of Religiosity, 1981–2020

Research shows most Western societies became less religious over recent decades. But we know much less about the rest of the world. Is the non-Western world also becoming less religious, as some varieties of secularization theory would lead us to expect? Using 1981-to-2020 World/European Values Surv...

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Main Author: Roberts, Louisa L. 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2023
In: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 62, Issue: 3, Pages: 648-671
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B International comparison / Religiosity / Modernization / Secularization / History 1981-2020
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
TK Recent history
Further subjects:B worldwide trends
B secularization theory
B Middle East and North Africa
B Religiosity
B Latin America
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